Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Welcome HDR applications in the following areas:

- modernisms, especially female, lesbian, queer and trans modernisms
- critical and cultural theory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- theories of gender, sexuality, and embodiment
- lesbian subjectivities and cultural production
- psychoanalysis and its theories
- relations between illness, language and representation
- medical humanities, in either its critical or applied forms
- critical disability studies
- humanities and medical education
- the professional identity formation of clinicians
- clinician burnout and practices of clinician self-care

She is also interested in discussing potential PhD projects with clinicians from across the healthcare professions who are thinking of undertaking research in the field of medical humanities.

20022024

Research activity per year

Network

Neepa Thacker

  • Imperial College London

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Deryn Rees-Jones

  • Birkbeck University of London

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Helen Bintley

  • Queen Mary University of London

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John Spicer

  • University of London

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Jennifer Wallis

  • Imperial College London

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Sally Kilmister

  • Birkbeck University of London

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Debbie Harrison

  • Birkbeck University of London

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Rebecca D'Monté

  • Birkbeck University of London

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